Madonna today called on the US to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
The former Material Girl is known for her anti-war views. Her recent tour featured images of children orphaned by war.
Today she told Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show: "I just don't want American troops to be in Iraq, period.
"My feelings are: 'Can we just all get out?"'
The 46-year-old pop star said: "Global terror is everywhere. Global terror is down the street, around the block.
"Global terror is in California. There's global terror everywhere and it's absurd to think you can get it by going to one country and dropping tons of bombs on innocent people."
Where, I would ask terrorist expert Madonna is there Global terror in California?
Irish Examiner Lists Top Ten Worst Songs Here
Gotta revise your Worst Song List once in a while to allow for new awful songs to take their rightful place:
The Mars Music Hall of Shame top 10:
1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles (1968)
2. Fog on the Tyne (revisited) - Gazza and Lindisfarne (Number 2 in 1990)
3. I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf (Number 1 in
1993)
4. Diamond Lights - Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle (Number 12 in 1987)
5. We Will Rock You - 5ive feat. Queen (Number 1 in 2000)
6. Millennium Prayer - Cliff Richard (Number 1 in 1999)
7. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice (Number 1 in 1990)
8. Anfield Rap - John Barnes and Liverpool FC (Number 3 in 1988)
9. Let's Get Ready to Rhumble - PJ and Duncan (Number 9 in 1994)
10. 5,6,7,8 - Steps (Number 14 in 1997)
POP CULTURE STORY OF THE WEEK!
Woman Votes In Bra After Being Told To Remove Bush-Cheney Shirt
Here
we read the story of the week and what with bogus exit polls filling the air this gem of a tale went completely under the radar.
JEFFERSON, La. -- When an election worker told Debbie Dupeire that her Bush-Cheney T-shirt was illegal at the polls, Dupeire didn't get mad. She got undressed.
Dupeire ripped off the T-shirt and voted Tuesday in a sports bra, too afraid to lose her place in a long line. Under state law, candidates' names cannot be displayed within 500 feet of a polling place. "I really thought it was OK to wear my shirt. I didn't go there to cause trouble," said Debbie Dupeire, a 38-year-old makeup artist.
Jefferson Parish Registrar of Voters Dennis DiMarco said he wished someone had seen Dupeire's shirt as soon as she came into the polling facility, and told her then. Dupeire said she understood the request and is not angry, but thinks Jefferson Parish may need more poll workers. "I'd been in line wearing the shirt for 15 minutes, and no one said anything until I was about to vote," said Dupeire. "Had they told me before I signed the book, I would have gone out and turned my shirt wrong-side out."
Wake up and smell the votes: 7-Eleven's election poll is well-grounded
Let’s get rid of Zogby, Gallup, The Quinnepiac as well as guesses from my own wise self. We have 7-11 that will do it all and sell coffee by the barrel while doing it. God Bless America.
By Cheryl Hall The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS — Who needs expensive pollsters and political pundits?
Certainly not the folks at 7-Eleven. They nailed the presidential
election with an unabashedly unscientific, tongue-in-cheek poll based on coffee-cup sales.
When the national convenience store chain closed its "precincts'' on Monday, its month long promotion showed that 51.08 percent of its customers nationwide preferred coffee in a Bush cup while 48.92 percent picked Kerry containers.
Margin of error: zero.
To heck with reading tea leaves. Jim Keyes, 7-Eleven Inc. chieftain, is sticking to coffee.
"Our popular vote was absolutely right on,'' he says, adding that theaccuracy was slightly spooky but hardly surprising. "We sell a million cups of coffee every day, so our sample size was huge.''
And in 2008?
You betcha.
President Halts War For Marine Mammal Trial
Been holding onto this one for a while. Ruling still holds, however, and it’s a relief the President won’t be hauled into court by such as marine mammals. And the liberals complained when the courts allowed the Paula Jones’ case to go on.
Court Says Whales, Dolphins Cannot Sue Bush
Wed Oct 20, 3:24 PM ET Science - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The world's whales, porpoises and dolphins have no standing to sue President Bush (news - web sites) over the U.S. Navy (news - web sites)'s use of sonar equipment that harms marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, widely considered one of the most liberal and activist in the country, said it saw no reason why animals should not be allowed to sue but said they had not yet been granted that right.
"If Congress and the President intended to take the extraordinary step of authorizing animals as well as people and legal entities to sue they could and should have said so plainly," Judge William A. Fletcher wrote in an 18-page opinion for the panel.
… by their self-appointed lawyer, marine mammal activist Lanny Sinkin.
Sinkin claimed in the lawsuit that the U.S. Navy had violated the Endangered Species Act with its use of long range, low frequency sonar that can cause tissue damage and other injuries to marine mammals.
TOMORROW: It's a varied list of Grandmotherly wisdom but all of it is enlightening The Wise I would submit.
How are credit card companies getting us to do their job? Better, how are teachers using our good nature to keep from doing their job at all?
And finally there is the funny saga of the SHIFT+F5 key.
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